Charlie Wolf
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Charlie Wolf (born 12 April 1959) is a British-based radio talk-show host, disc jockey and neoconservative commentator, originally from Boston. Wolf is best known for the TalkSport show he hosted on Saturdays and Sundays from 1am to 6am, following Mike Dickin. Wolf was forced to leave talkSPORT by the station's new owners UTV Radio in 2006.
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[edit] Career
Wolf studied journalism before moving to the UK in 1984 to DJ for the pirate radio station Laser 558, broadcasting from MV Communicator, based in international waters. In the early 1990s he was a DJ on Atlantic 252 and also GWR FM. In 2002 Wolf moved to Cork in Ireland to host RedFM's Cork Talks Back show (which is currently hosted by Victor Barry) and subsequently presented RedFM's breakfast show until his departure in June 2004. Whilst in Cork he also wrote a weekly column in the local Evening Echo newspaper for a time. For a short period Wolf broadcast on both Red FM and talkSPORT, and would fly from Cork to London and back on Ryanair. On a number of occasions, he presented his talkSPORT show remotely from a studio at RedFM. Wolf is Jewish although a Mormon convert.
Wolf continues to air his views in a weekly column in London-based community newspaper The Jewish News. Wolf also temporarily returned to the radio airwaves to host two shows a week on Shalom FM, an RSL (Restricted Service Licence) radio station which was broadcasting for one month until November 25, 2006 in North West London. He was also a stand-in presenter on the Frinton-on-Sea based radio station Big L 1395.
For the last year since leaving TalkSport radio Wolf has worked mainly as a radio and television pundit and commentator, mainly debating or speaking on American politics and news stories. On 12 October 2007, he appeared on David Frost's Al Jazeera English programme Frost Over The World, debating capital punishment with Bianca Jagger. [1]
[edit] Controversies
During his Talksport show on December 4, 2005, Wolf described Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist who had been killed by an Israeli military bulldozer, as "scum." In its bulletin dated January 23, 2006, Ofcom ruled this comment to be in breach of the "Generally Accepted Standards" section of the Broadcasting Code and stated it was "seriously ill-judged".
[edit] Personal life
Wolf married London-based journalist and art critic Estelle Lovatt in August 2004. They have a son Freddie, born in June 2005.
In June 2007, Wolf announced that he has kidney cancer, the same disease that afflicted his former talkSPORT colleague James Whale.
[edit] Quotes
- "It's not talkSports – it's talkSport. People just think I say talkSports because of the sibilance!"
- "Hey, I'm in with the Highgrove Set."
- "In some ways, death was the best thing that could have ever happened to her." (of Princess Diana)
- "America does it bigger and better."
- "We're gonna find them and we're gonna smoke them."
- "The government will never spend your money as efficiently as you will."[citation needed]
